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Inc, to give object lessons to our peo
ple In methods by which worthless
lands may be made productive.
The insect friends and enemies of
the farmer are Retting attention. The
enemy of the San Jose scale was found
near the Great Wall of China, and is
now cleaning up all our orchards. The
fig-fertilizing insect imported from
Turkey has helped to establish an in
dustry in California that amounts to
from fifty to one hundred tons of dried
figs annually, and is extending over
the Pacific coast. A parasitic fly from
South Africa is keeping in subjection
the black scale, the worst pest of the
orange and lemon industry in Cali
fornia.
Silk Cnlmre.
Careful preliminary work Is being
done towards producing our own silk.
The mulberry is being distributed in
large numbers, eggs are being import
ed and distributed, improved reels
were imported from Europe last year,
and two expert reelers were brought
to Washington to reel the crop of co
coons and teach the art to our own
people.
The crop-reporting system of the
Department of Agriculture Is being
brought closer to accuracy every
year. It has 250,000 reporters select
ed front people in eight vacations in
life. It has arrangements with most
European countries for interchange
of estimates, so that our people may
know as nearly as possible with what
they must compete.
Irrigation.
During the two and a half years
that have elapsed since the passage
of the reclamation act rapid progress
has been made in the surveys and ex
aminations of the opportunities for
reclamation in the thirteen states and
three territories of the arid West.
Construction has already been begun
on the largest and most important of
the irrigation works, and plans are be
ing completed for works which will
utilize the funds now available. The
operations are being carried on by the
reclamation service, a corps of engin
eers selected through competitive civil
service examinations. This corps in
cludes experienced , consulting and
constructing engineers as well as va
rious experts in mechanical and le
gal matters, and is composed largely
of men who have spent most of their
lives in practical affairs connected
with irrigation.
To Carry Out a Great Work.
The larger problems have been solv
ed and it now remains to execute with
care, economy, and thoroughness the
work which has been laid out. All
important details are being carefully
considered by boards of consulting en
gineers, selected for their thorough
knowledge and practical experience.
Each project is taken up on the ground
by competent men and viewed from
the standpoint of the creation of pros
perous homes, and of promptly re
funding to the treasury the cost of
construction. The reclamation act has
been found to be remarkably complete
and effective, and so broad in its
provisions that a wide range of un
dertakings has been possible under it.
At the same time, economy is guar
anteed by the fact that the funds must
ultimately be returned to be used over
a"ain.
PROTECTION OF THE FORESTS.
The Government's Fore at Poliey One
of Vital Interest.
It Is the cardinal principle of the
forest-reserve policy of this adminis
tration that the reserves are for use.
Whatever interferes with the use of
their resources is to be avoided by
every possible means. But these re
sources mu3t be used in such a way
as to make them permanent.
The forest policy of the government
is just now a subject of vivid public
interest throughout the West and to
the people of the United States in gen
eral. The forest reserves themselves
are of extreme value to the present
as well as to the future welfare of
all the western public land states.
They powerfully affect the use
and disposal of the public lands.
They are of special importance because
they preserve the water supply and the
supply of timber for domestic pur
poses, and so promote settlement un
der the reclamation act. Indeed, they
are essential to the welfare of every
one of the great Interests of the West.
The Purpose of Forest Reserves.
Forest reserves are created for two
principal purposes. The first is to pre
serve the water supply. This is their
most important use. The principal
users of the water thus preserved are
irrigation ranchers and settlers, cities
and towns to whom their municipal
water supplies are of the very first
importance, users and furnishers of
water power, and the users of water
for domestic, manufacturing, mining,
and other purposes. All these are di
rectly dependent upon the forest re
serves.
The second reason for which forest
reserves are created is to preserve the
timber supply for various classes of
wood users. Among the more impor
tant of these are settlers under the
reclamation act and other acts, for
■whom a cheap and accessible supply
of timber for domestic users is abso
lutely necessary; miners and prospec
tors. who are in serious danger of los
ing their timber supply by fire or
through export by lumber companies
when timber lands adjacent to their
mines pass into private ownership;
lumbermen, transportation companies,
builders and commercial interests in
general.
The Forest Reserve Tolley.
Although the wisdom of creating for
est reserves is nearly everywhere
heartily recognized, yet In a few lo
calities there has been misunderstand
ing and complaint. The following
statement Is therefore desirable:
The forest reserve policy can be suc
cessful only when it has the full sup
port of the people, of the West. It
can not safely, and should not In any
case, be imposed upon them against
their will. But neither can we accept
the views of those whose only tnterest
in the forest Is temporary; who are
anxious to reap what they have not
sown and then move away, leaving
desolation behind them. On the con
trary, It is everywhere and always the
Interest of the permanent settler and
the permanent business man, the man
with a stake In the country, which
must bo considered and which must
decide.
Within Land Grunt Liinlta.
The making of forest reserves with
in railroad and wagon road land-grant
limits will hereafter, as for the past
three years, be so managed as to pre
vent the issue, under the act of June
4, 1897, of base for exchange In lieu
selection (usually called scrip.) In all
cases where forest reserves within
areas oovered by land grants appear to
be essential to the prosperity of set
tlers, miners or others, the govern
ment lands within such proposed for
est reserves will, as In the recent past,
be withdrawn from sale or entry pend
ing the completion of such negotiations
with the owners of the land grants
as will prevent the creation of so-called
scrip.
It was formerly the custom to make
forest reserves without first getting
definite and detailed Information as to
the character of land and Umber
within their boundaries. This method
of action often resulted In badly
chosen boundaries and consequent in
justice to settlers and others. There
for# this administration adopted the
present method of first withdrawing
•he land 'om disposal, followed by
careful egsmlnsUon on the ground and
ths preparation of detailed maps gnd
descriptions, before any forest reserve
is created.
Should Be Intler One Control.
I have repeatedly called attention to
the confusion which exists in govern
ment forest matters because the work
is scattered among three independent
organizations. The United States is
the only one of the great nations in
which the forest work of the govern
ment is not concentrated under one de
partment, in consonance with the
plainest dictates of good administra
tion and common sense. The present
arrangement is bad from every point
of view. Merely to mention it is to
prove that it should be terminated at
once. As 1 have repeatedly recom
mended. all the forest work of the
government should be concentrated In
the Department of Agriculture, where
the larger part of that work Is al
ready done, where practically all of
the trained foresters of the govern
ment are employed, where chiefly in
Washington there is comprehensive
first-hand knowledge of the problems
of the reserves acquired on the ground,
where all problems relating to growth
from the soil are already gathered,
and where all the sciences auxiliary
to forestry are at hand for prompt and
effective co-operation.
Ill'll for Centralized Manage-
ment.
These reasons are decisive in them
selves, but it should be added that the
great organizations of citizens whose
interests are affected by the forest re
serves, such as the National Live
Stock Association, the National Wool
Growers' Association, the American
Mining Congress, the National Irriga
tion Congress and the National Board
of Trade, have uniformly, emphatical
ly. and most of them repeatedly, ex
pressed themselves in favor of plac
ing all government forest work in the
Department of Agriculture because of
the peculiar adaptation of that depart
ment for it. It is true, also, that the
forest services of nearly all the great
nations of the world are under the re
spective departments of agriculture,
while in but two of the smaller na
tions and in one colony are they un
der the Department of the Interior.
This is the result of long and varied
experience and it agrees fully with
the requirements of good administra
tion in our own case.
A Forest Service Proposed.
The creation of a forest service in
the Department of Agriculture will
have for its important results:
First. A better handling of all for
est work, because it will be under a
single head, and because the vast and
indispensable experience of the de
partment in all matters pertaining to
the forest reserves, to forestry in gen
eral, and to other forms of production
from the soil, will be easily and rap
idly accessible.
Second. The reserves themselves,
being handled from the point of view
of the man in the field, instead of the
man in the office, will be more easily
and more widely useful to the people
of the West than has been the case
hitherto.
Third. Within a comparatively
short time the reserves will become
self-supporting. This is important,
because continually and rapidly in
creasing appropriations will be neces
sary for the proper care of this ex
ceedingly important interest of the
nation, and they can and should be
offset by returns from the national
forests. Under similar circumstances
the forest possessions of other great
nations form an important source of
revenue to their governments.
Every administrative officer con
cerned is convinced of the necessity
for the proposed consolidation of for
est work in the Department of Agri
culture, and I myself have ufged it
more than once in former messages.
Again I commend it to the early and
favorable consideration of the Con
gress. The interests of the nation at
large and of the West, in particular
have suffered greatly because of the
delay.
Public Land* and Game Preserve*.
I cal! the attention of the Congress
again to the report and recommenda
tion of the Commission on the Public
Lands forwarded by me to the second
session of the present Congress. The
commission has prosecuted its investi
gations actively during the past sea
son. and a second report is now in an
advanced stage of preparation.
In connection with the work of the
forest reserves I desire again to urge
upon the Congress the importance of
authorizing the President to set aside
certain portions of these reserves or
other public lands as game refuges for
the preservation of the bison, the
wapiti, and other large beasts once so
abundant in our woods and mountains
and on our great plains, and now tend
ing toward extinction.
Protection o( Large Game.
Every support should be give to the
authorities of the Yellowstone Park in
their successful efforts at preserving
the large creatures therein; and at
very little expense portions of the pub
lic domain in other regions which are
wholly unsuited to agricultural settle
ment could be similarly utilized. We
owe it to future generations to keep
alive the noble and beautiful crea
tures which bv their presence add
such distinctive character to the Amer
ican wilderness. The limits of the Yel
lowstone Park should be extended
southwards. The Canyon of the Colo
rado should be made a national park:
and the national park system should
Include the Yosemlte and as many as
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SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY. DECEMBEK 7. liKi4.
possible of the groves of giant trees in
California.
The veterans of the Civil War have
a claim upon the nation such as no
other body of our citizens possess. The
Pension Bureau has never in Its his
tory been managed in a more satisfac
tory manner than is now the case.
PHOGKKSB OF TUB INDIANS
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Toward* Civilization All That C'onlO
He Hoped For.
The progress of the Indians toward
civilization, though not rapid, is per
haps all that could be hoped for in
view of the circumstances. Within the
past ydar many tribes have shown, in
a degree greater than ever before, an
appreciation of the necessity of work.
This changed attitude is in part due
to the policy recently pursued of re
ducing the amount of subsistence to
the Indians, and thus forcing them,
through sheer necessity, to work for
a livelihood. The policy, though severe,
is a useful one, but it is to be exer
cised only with judgment and with
a full understanding of the conditions
which exist in each community for
which it is intended. On or near the
Indian reservations there is usually
very little demand for labor, and if the
Indians are to earn their living and
when work can not be furnished from
outside (which is always preferable),
then it must be furnished by the gov
ernment. Practical instruction of this
kind would in a few years result in the
forming of habits of regular industry,
which would render the Indian a
producer and would effect a great re
duction in the cost of his maintenance.
The Inilinii Service Unsatisfactory.
It is commonly declared that the
slow advance of the Indians is due to the
unsatisfactory character of the men
appointed to take immediate charge
of them, and to some extent this is
true. While the standard of the em
ployes in the Indian Service showj
great improvement over that of by
gone years, and while actual corrup
tion or flagrant dishonesty Is now
the t'are exception, it is nevertheless
the fact that the salaries paid Indian
agents are not large enough to attract
the best men to that field of work.
To achieve satisfactory results the
official in ch~.rge of an Indian tribe
should possess the high qualifications
which are required in the manager of
a large business, but only in exceptional
cases is it possible to secure men of
such a type for these positions. Much
better service, however, might be ob
tained from those now holding the
places were it practicable to get out
of them the best that is in them, and
this should be done by bringing them
constantly into closer touch with their
superior officers. An agent who has
been content to draw his salary, giv
ing in return the least possible equi
valent in effort and service, may, by
proper treatment, by suggestion and
encouragement, or persistent urging,
be stimulated to greater effort and in
duced to fiake a more active personal
interest in his work.
Out uf Touch With the Bureau.
Under existing conditions an Indian
agent in the distant West may be
wholly out of touch with the office of
the Indian Bureau. He may very well
feel that no one takes a personal in
terest in him or his efforts. Certain
routine duties in the way of reports
and accounts are required of him, but
there is no one with whom he may
intelligently consult on matters vital
to his work, except after long delay.
Such a man would be greatly encour
aged and aided by personal contact
with someone whose interest in In
dian affairs and whose authority in
the Indian Bureau were greater than
his own, and such contact would be
certain to arouse and constantly in
crease the interest he takes in his
work.
Obstacles to Indian Progress.
The distance which separates the
agents—the workers in the field—front
the Indian Office in Washington is a
chief obstacle to Indian progress.
Whatever shall more closely unite
these two branches of the Indian serv
ice, and shall enable them to co-oper
ate more heartily and more effectively,
will be for the Increased efficiency of
the work and the betterment of the
race for whose improvement the In
dian Bureau was established. The ap
pointment of a field assistant to the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs would
be certain to insure this good end.
Such an official, if possessed of the
requisite energy and deep interest in
the work, would be a most efficient
factor in bringing into closer relation
ship and a more direct union of effort
the bureau in Washington and its
agents in the field; and with the co
operation of its branches thus secured
the Indian Bureau would, in measure
fuller than ever before, lift up the sav
age toward that self-help and self-re
liance which constitute the man.
In 1907 there will be held at Hamp
,ton Hoads the trl-centennial celebra
tion of the settlement at Jamestown,
Va., with which the history of what
has now become the United States
really begins. 1 commend this to your
favorable consideration. It is an event
of prime historic significance, in which
all the people of the United States
should feel, and should show, great
and general interest.
The Postal Service.
In the Postoffice Department the
service has increased in efficiency, and
ccndltions as to revenue and expendi
ture continue satisfactory. The in
crease of revenue during the year was
$9,358.151.10, or 6.9 per cent., the total
receipts amounting to $143,382,624.31.
The expenditures were $152,362,116.70.
an increase of about 9 per cent, over the
previous year, being thus $8,979,492.36
In excess of the current revenue. In
eluded in these expenditures was a to
tal appropriation of $12,956,637.35 for
the continuation and extension of the
rural free-dellvery service, which was
an increase of $4,902,237.35 over the
amount expended for this purpose
In the preceding fiscal year. Large as
this expenditure has been the bene
ficent results attained In extending the
free distribution of mails to the resi
dents of rural districts have justified
the wisdom of the outlay. Statistics
brought down to Oct. 1, 1904, show
that on that date there were 27,138
rural routes established, serving ap
proximately 12.000,000 of people in rural
districts remote from postofflees, and
that there were pending at that time
.3.859 petitions for the establishment of
new rural routes. Unquestionably
some part of the general Increase In
receipts is due to the increased postal
facilities which the rural service has
afforded. The revenues have also been
aided greatly by amendments in the
classification of mall matter, and the
curtailment of abuses of the second
class mailing privilege. The average
Increase In the volume of mall mat
ter for the period beginning with 1902
and ending June, 1905 ithat portion of
1905 being estimated). Is 40.47 per cent.,
as compared with 25.46 per cent, for
the period immediately preceding, and
15.92 for the four-year period Imme
diately preceding that.
The Cousiilnr Service.
Our consular system needs Improve
ment. Salaries should be substituted
for fees, and the proper classification,
grading, and transfer of consular of
ficers should be provided. I am not
prepared la aay that a competitive sya
tem of examinations for appointment
would work well; hut by law It should
be provided that consuls should be
familiar, according to placea for which
•hey apply, with the French. German,
or Mpunlsh languages, and should
possess acquaintance with the resources
if the Cnlted Htftth*.
The < ollection of objects of art con
templated In section fi5M of the Itrvjs
vd Statutes should tw designated and
established as a national gallery of
art; and the Smithsonian Institution
should be authorized to accept any ad
ditions to said collection that may be
received by gift, bequest, or devise.
A National (Quarantine l.un.
It is desirable to enact a proper na
tional quarantine law. It is most un
desirable that a stale should on its
own initiative enforce quarantine reg
ulations which are in effect a restric
tion upon interstate and international
commerce. The question should prop
erly be assumed by the government
alone. The surgeon general of the
National Public Health and Marine
Hospital Service has repeatedly and
convincingly set forth the need for
such legislation.
I call your attention to the great ex
tranvagance in printing and binding
government publications, and especial
ly to the fact that altogether too
many of these publications are print
ed. There is a constant tendency to
increase their number and their vol
ume. It is an understatement to say
that no appreciable harm would be
caused by, and substantial benefit
would aceure from, decreasing the
amount of printing now done by at
least-one-half. Probably the great
majority of the government reports
and the like now printed are never
read at all, and furthermore the print
ing of much of the material contain
ed in many of the remaining ones
serves no useful purpose whatever.
The Currency.
The attention of the Congress
should be especially given to the cur
rency question, and that the standing
committees on the matter in the two
houses charged with the duty, take up
the matter of our currency and see
whether it is not possible to secure an
agreement in the business world for
bettering ttje system; the commitees
should consider the question of the
retirement of the greenbacks and the
problem of securing in our currency
such elasticity as is consistent with
safety. Every silver dollar should be
made by law redeemable in gold at the
option of the holder.
I especially commend to your imme
diate attention the encouragement of
our merchant marine by appropriate
legislation.
THADH A\D IMMIGRATION.
Tlie Extension of One) the Regula
tion of the Other. *
The growing importance of the Orient
as a field for Americ'an exports drew
from my predecessor, President Mc-
Kinley, an urgent request for its spe
cial consideration by the Congress. In
his message of 1898 he stated:
“In this relation, as showing the pe
culiar volume and value of our trade
with China and the peculiarly favor
able conditions which exist for their ex
pansion in the normal course of trade,
I refer to the communication address
ed to the Speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives by the Secretary of the
Treasury on the 14th of last June, with
its accompanying letter of the Secretary
of State, recommending an appropria
tion for a commission to study the in
dustrial and commercial conditions in
the Chinese Empire and to report as
to the opportunities for and the obsta
cles to the enlargement of markets in
China for the raw products and manu
factures of the United States. Action
was not taken thereon during the last
session. I cordially urge that the
recommendation receive at your hands
the consideration which its importance
and timeliness merit.”
In his annual message of 1899 he again
called attention to this recommenda
tion, quoting it. and stated further:
For Trade in China.
"I now renew this recommendation,
as the importance of the subject has
steadily grown sirice it was first sub
mitted to you, and no time should be
lost in studying for ourselves the re
sources of this great field for Amer
ican trade and enterprise.”
The importance of securing proper
information and data with a view lo
the enlargement of our trade with Asia
is undiminished. Our consular repre
sentatives in China have strongly urg
ed a place for permanent display of
American products in some prominent
trade center of tttat Empire, under
government control and management,
as an effective means of advancing our
export trade therein. I call the atten
tion of the Congress to the desirability
of carrying out these suggestions.
Immigration aml Naturalization.
In dealing with the questions of im
migration and naturalization it is in
dispensable to keep certain facts ever
before the minds of those who share
in enacting the laws. First and fore
most, let us remember that the ques
tion of being a good American has
nothing whatever to do with a man’s
birthplace any more than it has to do
with his creed. In every generation
from the time this government was
founded men of foreign birth have
stood in the very foremost rank of
good citizenship, and that not merely
in one but in every field of American
activity; white to try to draw a dis
tinction between the man whose, par
ents came to this country and the man
whose ancestors came to it several
generations back is a mere absurdity.
Good Americanism.
Good Americanism Is a matter of
heart, of conscience, of lofty aspira
tion. of sound common sense, but not
of birthplace or of creed. The medal
of honor, the highest prize to be won
by those who serve in the army and
the navy of the United States deco
rates men born here, and it also deco
rates men born in Great Britain and
Ireland, in Germany, in Scandinavia,
in France, and doubtless In other
countries also. In the field of States
manship, in the field of business, in
the field of philanthropic endeavor, it
is equally true that among the men
of whom we are most proud as Ameri
cans no distinction whatever can be
drawn between those who themselves
or whose parents came over in sail
ing ship or steamer from across the
water and those whose ancestors
stepped ashore in thfe wooded wilder
ness at Plymouth or at the mouth of
the Hudson, the Delaware or the
James nearly three centuries ago. No
fellow-citizen of ours is entitled to any
peculiar regard because of the way in
which he worships his Maker, or be
cause of the birthplace of himself or
his parents, nor should he be in any
act like Exercise.
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way discriminated’ against therefor.
Each must stand on his worth as a
man and each is entitled to be judged
solely thereby.
Hanger In Too Many Immigrant*.
There is no danger of having too
many immigrants of the right kind.
It makes no difference from what
country they come. If they are sound
in body and in mind, and, above all,
if they are of good character, so that
we can rest assured that their child
ren and grandchildren will be worthy
fellow citizens of our children and
grandchildren, then we’ should welcome
them with cordial hospitality.
But the citizenship of this country
should not be debased. It is vital that
we should keep high the standard of
well-being among our wage-workers,
and therefore we should not admit
masses of men whose standards of liv
ing and whose person*.! 1 customs and
habits are such that they tend to low
er the level of the American wage
worker; and above all we should not
admit any man of ail unworthy type,
any man concerning whom we can
s’ay that he will himself be a bad citi
zen, or that his children and grand
children will detract from instead of
adding to the sum of the good citi
zenship of the country. Similarly we
should take the greatest care about
naturalization. Fradulent natutializa
tion, the naturalization of improper
persons, is a curse to our government;
and it is the affair of every honest
voter, wherever born, to see that no
fraudulent voting is allowed, that no
fraud in connection with nauralization
is permitted.
Naturalization Frnul*.
In the past year the cases of false,
fraudulent, and improper naturaliza
tion of aliens coming to the attention
of the executive benches of the gov
ernment have increased to an al’arm
ing degree. Extensive sales of forged
certificates of naturalization have been
discovered, as well as many cases of
naturalization secured by perjury and
fraud, addition, instances have
accumulated showing that many courts
issue certificates of naturalization
carelessly ‘and upon insufficient evi
dence.
Under the Constitution it is in the
power of the Congress "to establish a
uniform rule .of naturalization,” and
numerous laws have from time to time
been enacted for that purpose, whicl:
have been supplemented in a few
states by state laws having special
application. The federal statutes per
mit naturalization by any court of rec
ord in the United States having com
mon law jurisdiction and a seal and
clerk, except the police court of the
District of Columbia, and nearly all
of these courts exercise this import
ant function. It results that where so
many courts of such varying grades
have jurisdiction, there is lack of uni
formity in the rules applied in con
ferring naturalization. Some courts
are strict and others lax. An alien
who may secure naturalization in one
place might be denied it in another,
and the intent of the constitutional
provision is in fact defeated. Further
more, the certificates of naturalization
issued by the courts differ widely in
wording, and appearance, and when
they are brought into use in foreign
countries, are frequently subject to
suspicion.
Laws Should Be Revised.
There should be. a comprehensive re
vision of the naturalization laws. The
courts having power to naturalize
should be definitely named by national
:authority; the testimony upon which
naturalization may be conferred should
be definitely prescribed; publication of
impending naturalization applications
should be required in advance of their
hearing in court; the form and word
ing of all certificates issued should be
uniform throughout the country, and
the courts should be required to make
returns to the Secretary of State at
stated periods of all naturalizations
conferred.
Not only are the laws relating to
naturalization now defective, but those
relating to citizenship of the United
States ought also to be made the sub
ject of scientific Inquiry with a view
to probable further legislation.
Citizenship Laws.
By what acts expatriation may be
assumed to have been accomplished,
how long an American citizen may
reside abroad and receive the protec
tion of our passport, whether any de
gree of protection should be extended
to one who has made the declaration
of Intention to become a citizen of the
United States but has not secured
naturalization, are questions of serious
import, involving personal rights and
often producing friction between this
government and foreign governments.
Yet upon these questions our laws are
silent. I recommend that an examina
tion be made into the subjects of
citizenship, expatriation, and protec
tion of Americans abroad, with a view
to appropriate legislation.
PROTECTION OF THE n.VLLOT,
Tlie Enactment of a Law Against
Bribery Recommended.
The power of the government to pro
tect the Integrity of the elections of its
own officials is inherent and has been
recognized and affirmed by repeated
declarations of the Supreme Court.
There Is no enemy of free government
more dangerous and none so insidious
as the corruption of the electorate. No
one defends or excuses corruption, and
It would seem to follow that none
would oppose vigorous measures to
eradicate it. I recommend the enact
ment of a law directed against bribery
and corruption in federal elections. The
details of such a law may be safely
left to the wise discretion of the Con
gress, but it should go as far as under
the constitution it is possible to go,
and should Include severe penalties
against him who gives or receives a
bribe intended to Influence his act or
opinion as an elector; and provisions
for the publication not only of the ex
penditures for nominations and elec
tions of all candidates but also of
all contributions received and ex
penditures made by political commit
tees.
Delays In Criminal Proserntlons.
No subject Is better worthy the at
tention of the Congress than that por
tion of the report of the Attorney Gen
eral dealing with the long delays and
the great obstruction to Justice expe-
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242 Bull Street, Savannah, Ga.
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Velosipedes, rubber and steel tires.
Automobiles, rubber tires.
Hand Cars, rubber tires.
Iron Wagons.
Dolls Brass Beds, with springs.
New line of Dolls, Go-Carts and Baby
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